COVIDCalls

Today I welcome Dr. Vipul Shah, Medical Director, R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.

Vipul Shah is the Medical Director and Consultant for pediatric orthopedics, pediatric spine and scoliosis at R .P. Shah Memorial Trust for children with Disabilities in Lucknow, India.  He is Medical Director of the R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.  A graduate of GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, India He is also Patient Care Coordinator for UNICEF.  He was the 1st Non American candidate to win the prestigious CART Fellowship of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.  He is a Mentor of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine since 2017.

Today I welcome Dr. Vipul Shah, Medical Director, R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.

Vipul Shah is the Medical Director and Consultant for pediatric orthopedics, pediatric spine and scoliosis at R .P. Shah Memorial Trust for children with Disabilities in Lucknow, India.  He is Medical Director of the R P Shah Memorial trust against Covid 19.  A graduate of GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, India He is also Patient Care Coordinator for UNICEF.  He was the 1st Non American candidate to win the prestigious CART Fellowship of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.  He is a Mentor of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine since 2017.

Today I welcome Elizabeth Ellcessor author of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.

Elizabeth Ellcessor is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and a senior faculty fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Her research focuses on media access as a variable and uneven phenomenon that advantages some and marginalizes others. She is the author of Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation and of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality, which is forthcoming in Spring 2022.

Teresa Tindle Akintonwa is an education specialist, patient advocacy blogger, and founder of the Black Covid-19 Survivors Support group, an online community aimed at helping African-Americans overcome the misinformation, exclusion, and trauma of having Covid. Teresa herself contracted Covid-19 early in the pandemic back in February 2020 and has been contending with the physical and cognitive impact ever since.

Lisa McCorkell is a co-founder and patient-researcher with Patient-Led Research Collaborative, a group of people with Long COVID who conducted the first and most comprehensive research on Long COVID. As a result of her research with PLRC, she has testified to Congress, presented to the White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, and been featured in The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. In her day job, she is a policy analyst at the California Department of Social Services. She received a Masters in Public Policy from University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles. 

Today I welcome Long COVID activists Teresa Tindle Akintonwa and Lisa McCorkell to #COVIDCalls

Today I welcome Jennifer Sullivan, founder of the For Those We Lost podcast.

Jennifer Sullivan lives outside of Portland, Oregon. She is a part-time community college instructor and also works in social media marketing. Her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's from a Traumatic Brain Injury in 2014 and Jennifer became her mother's family caregiver and advocate. Her mother was in a memory care home when the COVID pandemic lockdowns began in March of 2020. Jennifer made it her mission to TRY and find a way to safely visit her mother, to provide the physical contact, hugs and kisses that her mom needed. Instead her mother got COVID in an outbreak in her memory care and passed away in August 2020. To help herself heal, Jennifer started a podcast where she interviews people who have lost loved ones to COVID.

Today is a special COVIDCalls recorded in conjunction with the 2021 Toronto International Festival of Authors.  My guests are anthropologist Katherine E. Browne & resilience expert/engineer Laurian Farrell.

Let’s turn to the discussion I had with Katherine Browne and Laurian Farrell as part of the Toronto Intl. Festival of Authors.

Today I welcome writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola to COVIDCalls, she is the author of Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move.

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. In addition to academic writing, she writes analysis and commentary for numerous publications around the world and  is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020). 

Today I welcome social psychologist Orla Muldoon exploring the value of social solidarity for public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.

Orla Muldoon is a professor of social psychology at the University of Limerick.  She studies ways that social contexts and in particular social systems and structures can shape behaviour, attitudes and health. She regularly contribute to the new media and in particular offer opinion editorials in the Irish Times.  She is a current member of the Irish Research Council and serve on the Behaviour and communications committee advising the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).  She is currently managing an ERC Advanced grant that explores whether adversity, trauma and its psychological consequences are driven by social identity change; and a HRB-IRC funded project that is exploring the value of social solidarity to public adherence to health messaging during COVID19.

Today I welcome Science, Technology, and Society scholar Hyomin Kim to discuss COVID, science, and culture in South Korea.

Hyomin Kim is an Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, of the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the co-production of knowledge, values, identities and authority around technoscience. She has performed research projects in the field of public engagement with science and technology (PEST).  She is the co-author of “Public Deliberation on South Korean Nuclear Power Plants: How Can Lay Knowledge Resist against Expertise?” (East Asian Science and Technology), and “Women and Men in Computer Science: Geeky Proclivities, College Rank, and Gender in Korea”

Today I welcome medical anthropologist Emma Kowal, author of Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia.

Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who previously worked as a medical doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of STS and Indigenous studies and have recently focused on the many iterations and resonances of ‘Indigenous DNA’. She has authored over 100 publications including the monograph Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia and the collection Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. Her current book project is entitled Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia.